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The plane was an A320 with a 3 and 3 set up in each row. Views on the way up of a fairly icy landscape. No air bridges at little Kiruna airport, so exit is onto an icy tarmac. Arrival just before 1.30 and fairly dark already.

On arrival at the gate, it was evident our flight was running slightly late, as at boarding time there was no actual plane in sight. Nonetheless the board indicated we would only be 10 minutes late, which seemed ambitious. Luggage was sitting in trolleys (in the snow!) waiting to be loaded...

Travel day today, flying to Kiruna with SAS. Domestic flights in Sweden with SAS are fairly basic, with service levels snd baggage being optional add ons, not dissimilar to JQ (for example). As I wanted to have refundable tickets, we bought the SAS plus package, which in addition to being...

Christmas day and our last full day in Stockholm. After a Christmas morning sleep in we had a walk and some snowball fights on the waterfront. In the evening we headed to Skansen, the open air museum, which for the winter season had set up a trail of light displays with music. The displays...

My own experience with Ubigi has been good too. I have now used them in Japan, Indonesia, Germany, UAE and Sweden. Very easy to use, and although pricing is variable have never had connectivity issues. Found Japan and Sweden (where we are currently) to be excellent value. You just use the one...

As promised in a previous post, a review of our Christmas Eve Julbord (Christmas smorgasbord). Christmas eve in Sweden is the big family day and the big celebratory meal. With a Julbord booked for later in the day, we wanted to use some energy to make room for dinner. We therefore headed out to...

For those keen to see a photo of my poor handbag in a bin, here you go….you can just see th strap a bit of the decorative zip. And some Swedish rubbish for a bit of cultural insight.

14 years is a long time to have lived here. It looks like a lovely city to live in. We certainly are pleased to have snow as we had no expectation of it, and it’s an excellent bonus for Christmas time. We too are having our big celebration this Christmas Eve, and have booked a restaurant...

A big day today. Started the day making good use of our metro passes by taking a self-guided tour of Stockholm’s metro stations. The majority of Stockholm’s metro stations have been individually decorated by local artists. We visited only about 10 but they were amazing and made for an enjoyable...

With snow forecast all day, seemed an excellent day for museum visiting. Mr ShelleyB was keen on the Vasa Museum, a 17th century gunship that sank almost immediately upon launch due to poor design, and which was raised almost intact in the middle of last century. The ship itself, lack of...

Stockholm is a city made of many islands (14) joined by bridges, but is also part of a much larger archipelago, with 30000 a commonly stated number of islands in the region. It was to one of these islands, Vaxholm, that we travelled to on the number 83 ferry for a day out. The ferry journey was...

Mr ShellyB was feeling a bit under the weather from all the travelling so chose to spend the morning resting up. ShellyB son and I therefore headed out for a little self guided tour of the town, concentrating mainly in the Gamla Stan area. Before that though the first order of business was to...

We are in Stockholm for 7 days, staying at Frey’s Hotel Lilla Radmannen. It’s about a 15 minute, easy walk from the city centre, and was attractive to us as it has genuine triple rooms, which is always a challenge with family travel, as well as being very reasonably priced with breakfast...

It was our first time actually doing something other than transit through Dubai, and as we only had a short time we only did the standard tourist things of the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Mall and the Dubai Fountain. The Burj is certainly an impressive building that dominates the skyline. The mall was...

With an early start required for the 0615 EK409 MEL-DXB, we stayed the night at the Holiday Inn at Tullamarine. No photos, but pretty much the same as any other city Holiday Inn. Has what you need but no more or less. Food was fine, and kids eat free. Up early and at the terminal by 3am, check...

Realistically with quite a few more flights to come there will be more hiccups but hopefully not till further down the track. I just want to be travelling now.

We are now at T-5 days and despite my hopes there would be no dramas, the first drama has already arisen. Woke this morning to a notification that the DXB-AMM segment of the first flight, which we booked with Qantas points (CR), has changed. Instead of flying at 10.40pm on the Monday we were...

Thanks - we already did that. Bought the VIP in case weather is cough. Good tip about the boarding passes though, I'll follow up.

We have a little longer. We have 3 nights in Stone Town, then 5 nights in Matemwe. SB-son does not know it yet (as it's a Christmas present) but we've booked him a discovery dive in Matemwe. Then we are taking the ferry to DAR before flying onwards to JRO.

Initially we had CR seats on EK from DAR as far as SIN but could not find a J class fare home for less than about $3000 per traveller. Then some special fare appeared on Qatar JNB to MEL for around $2500 per traveller. Considering QR flights from DAR are around $5000 or more per person we...